It shouldn't take 5 hours to scan your music, unless you have a huge library, like 50,000 tracks or more - or, unless you're running slimserver on very underpowered hardware. Also in some cases, the scan process can get in a loop due to broken shortcut links. You can log errors during the scan process by checking the "d_scan" setting in the slimserver web interface (Home / Server Settings / Debugging)
As far as why the scan process has to happen, it's because slimserver is building a database. It pulls information out of each file and holds it in large tables that are easy to search. Slimserver can't give instant access to your collection until it knows what's IN your collection. There's an easy way to add new music to slimserver without having to do a complete rescan. Use "Browse Music Folder", either from the remote control or the web interface. You just navigate to the folder where the newly added music is, and slimserver will add those tracks to the database. You can also play the new tracks now. Hang in there and we'll help you get straightened out. Slimserver does have its quirks, but it is generally solid and quite flexible once you get used to it. Tell us about your server hardware, server operating system, size of your music collection, which version of Slimserver are you using, stuff like that. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
